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From the Editor

Great Music, Great Sound

Does Vinyl Still Have a Place in this World? • An Impassioned Perspective

Acoustic Signature TA-10000 Neo Tonearm • The Best Gets (Much) Better

Gunther Frohnhöfer on the TA-10000 Neo

Garrard 301 Transcription Turntable • Still Great After All These Years

The Cadence/SME 301 Advanced

ATC SCM20ASL • Having it Both Ways

Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G • Six Generations of Refinement

Philharmonic BMR Tower • Out of the Ordinary

The BMR Driver Explained

Wolf von Langa WVL12739 Ultima • Field-Coil Chameleons

Rockport Technologies Lynx • Product of the Year Contender!

Rockport's Lyra Enclosure

Hegel Music Systems D50 Digital-to-Analog Converter • Music First

Denon DCD-1700NE CD/SACD Player • The Return of the Uni-tasker

CD vs. SACD

Harmonic Resolution Systems VXR Equipment Rack • Advanced Engineering Meets Unlimited Configurability

Design and Construction

Shunyata Everest 8000 Isolation Platform

Snake River Audio Takshaka Interconnects and Power Cords • A Big Step Up

Siltech Master Crown Cable, Interconnect, and Power Cord • A Trip to Another Realm

WELCOME TO THE ECOSYSTEM • LINN SELEKT DSM CLASSIC DIGITAL NETWORK MUSIC PLAYER AND 150 LOUDSPEAKER

LINN: A MODEL FOR FAMILY SUCCESSION

All Roads Lead to Stereolab • The Retro-Futuristic Band of the Past, in the Present

The Endless Cool of Pulp • Why, in 2025, We All Needed More

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower • The Art of Improvisation

Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983 • Crossing Swords with the Conductor

So Who Writes Those Articles, Anyway? • Musicians in the Music Section

MUSIC ROCK ETC

MUSIC JAZZ

MUSIC CLASSICAL

Q&A Marcus Neubauer & Sebastian Mojrzisch • Founders, Seismion